P.A.G.E. Analysis of Professional Journal Article Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
READ THIS FIRST: Most academic research writing is problem-based. To identify the purpose of your article, look for a statement of the problem for study. Usually you’ll find it in the first few paragraphs, often in a sentence that begins with “But,” or “However” and creates a contrast with previous research (for example, “Previous research has…. However, it has not yet explored….”).
1a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that sums up its purpose. This article examines the complexity of these issues within the world of professional golf, major league baseball, and Olympic Competition
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose? To inform the readers about the popular drug abuse usage in professional sports today.
AUDIENCE
READ THIS FIRST: Academic research writing has different audiences, depending on your major. Usually that audience is identified in the first few paragraphs (for example, “Education researchers have long been interested in….”) but sometimes the audience is implicit (not stated directly).
2a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that indicates its audience. Baseball historians will contemplate describing the current time as the “steroid era.”
2b. In your own words, who is the audience? In this article the audience is sports fans. The article particularly talks about Golf, Baseball, and Olympics. The article is directed more for the whole fan base for sports
GENRE
READ THIS FIRST: In different majors, there are important differences in what counts as evidence, how a text is organized, and what kinds of language it uses. To find these differences, you will have to skim through the whole of your article.
3a. Evidence – What counts as evidence in this article? How do you know? In this article there a lot of things that have happened in the past. There are dates, what happened is described, and when it happened is also mentioned.
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another. Abstract, Introduction, Enhancing Performance or Restoring Normative Function, Conclusion, References
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article).
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example. This article uses an abbreviation for an Anti Doping Industry. The abbreviation is WADA and stands for World Anti-Doping Agency. Also PGA is used a lot, referring to the Professional Gold Association.
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)
Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
that sums up its purpose.
This article examines the complexity of these issues within the world of professional golf, major league baseball, and Olympic Competition
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose?
To inform the readers about the popular drug abuse usage in professional sports today.
AUDIENCE
Baseball historians will contemplate describing the current time as the “steroid era.”
2b. In your own words, who is the audience?
In this article the audience is sports fans. The article particularly talks about Golf, Baseball, and Olympics. The article is directed more for the whole fan base for sports
GENRE
How do you know?
In this article there a lot of things that have happened in the past. There are dates, what happened is described, and when it happened is also mentioned.
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
Abstract, Introduction, Enhancing Performance or Restoring Normative Function, Conclusion, References
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article).
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
This article uses an abbreviation for an Anti Doping Industry. The abbreviation is WADA and stands for World Anti-Doping Agency. Also PGA is used a lot, referring to the Professional Gold Association.
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)